What is a collective noun?

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A collective noun is a noun used to group people or things taken
together as one whole in a descriptive way.

Some nouns are by definition collective nouns such as
crowd,
herd, or
bouquet, words for groups. Some nouns can sometimes function as
collective nouns or not: "Please set the
table." (not a collective noun) or "a
table of contents" (a collective noun). And some nouns are used
as collective nouns because people like the way they sound or the
way they color the image of a group; for example, "a
stand of flamingos" and "a
flamboyance of flamingos". Both are standard collective nouns
for flamingos.

Some examples are:

an army of ants

a bouquet of flowers

a band of gorillas

a class of students

a den of thieves

a fleet of cars

a gang of hoodlums

a team of players

The plural form of the collective noun is used when there are two
or more groups:

A collective noun is a word to group a plural noun for people orthings. The word 'her' is a pronoun , a word that takes theplace on a noun for a female, one female. There …isno collective noun of one person.

There is no collective noun for the noun 'bravery'. A collectivenoun is a word used to group people or things taken together as onewhole in a descriptive way. The noun 'brave…ry' is an abstract, uncountable noun, a word for aconcept.

There is no specific collective noun for the noun 'footwear'. Theclosest you can come is a pair of shoes, a pair of slippers, a pairof boots, etc. The shoes grouped in a coll…ection of shoes by a shoe collectorwould be a collection of shoes, or a collection of footwear.

Shepherds can be people or dogs. The collective noun for dogs is a pack of dogs. There is no standard noun for people who are shepherds, most likelybecause most shepherds wo…rk alone. Any noun that suits the context can function as a collective noun;for example, a group of shepherds, a council ofshepherds, a family of shepherds, etc.